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Listening to the chest with a stethoscope, or your ear will tell the location of the heart. Percussing over the liver, but not finding a solid structure e.g. liver, which sounds different than a hollow structure, e.g. lungs would also help in identifying unexpected organ locations. I'm curious how you came to know that many of them don't know? Do you keep a register of people with this condition, but don't tell them?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8901252/
https://www.healthline.com/health/situs-inversus#symptoms
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23486-situs-inversus
Of course, trying to estimate how many people don't know about a disease is a difficult task, but the general consensus is the condition is rare and often doesn't produce any symptoms, as such there are definitely many people with the condition that haven't even ever heard of it.
Cool, so sticking with the stipulated incidence, 800K is indeed a lot. Thanks for the linx!